 know I know you're looking at the title and you're like man Nintendo Prime you're really late to the party and you're right I am but I'm still talking about it just in case we have some people who follow our channel who this is the only place to get the news from that or just to say or just to announce I am going to be competing in the Nintendo World Championships now let me let me explain what's happening right now so the official site nwc.nintendo.com it says play games have fun dream big compete for a place in Nintendo history and it has Mario and notably an image of an inkling girl from Splatoon 2 so it might be hints at future things to come but it says this October Nintendo fans will put their gaming skills to the ultimate test in an epic battle to win the Nintendo World Championships 2017 it all kicks off with eight qualifying events events at select Best Buy stores across the US join the celebration of Nintendo's past present and future and maybe even win a trip to New York City for the finals and it's open to residents in the US and Canada except for Quebec they must have restrictions in Quebec for certain competitions and the qualifiers are taking place in New York and San Francisco on August 19th and August 20th in Chicago and Los Angeles on August 26 and 27th Minneapolis and Dallas on September 2nd and 3rd September 9th and 10th in Seattle and Miami and that's notable because I'm going to the Minneapolis one it's about an hour and a half or so drive for me to get to that Best Buy and I'm doing that on the third because I have my son's second birthday party on September 2nd so I won't be able to go that day but I'll be out there bright and early on the third it starts at like 11 a.m. or something and these are obviously at Best Buy store locations nowhere else interestingly enough they also have art from Zelda all Zelda from Smash Bros. Link from Smash Bros. I should say and arms on the page as well again hints at things probably to come so how does this competition work well the qualifier event is Mario Kart 7 so Mario Kart 7 on a 3DS not 8 not deluxe Mario Kart 7 and you have to show up and have a plaster game demos and giveaways they have that going on the event the qualifier details there are two age rackets there's a 12 and under in the 13 and older I'll obviously be in the 13 and older kids of all ages are welcome if you're 17 or younger your parents regarding must be present the game is Mario Kart 7 the mode you're going to be playing in is a time trial you'll get two tries to score the best time you possibly can one winner from each age bracket will qualify for an invitation to the final event and this is one winner from each age bracket at each event so if I win the Minneapolis event with the best time I would be invited to New York and yes I am going to be practicing as well I'm sure thousands of other people so we'll see what happens 12 and younger you have to play with Mario you have to use the standard cart standard wheels and the super glider and the stage that you'll be doing is DS Luigi's Mansion for the 13 and older bracket which is the one I'll be competing in we have Bowser you have to play as you play as the standard cart standard wheels super glider and the stage is GBA Bowser's Castle 1 so that's the stage I'm gonna have to practice a ton on to get the best time possible what's also interesting is while you're there you can demo upcoming games you get the chance to go hands-on with Super Mario Odyssey and obviously for Nintendo Switch and Metroid Samus Returns for the 3DS and you can also collect my Nintendo rewards if I check in with my Nintendo QR code what the my Nintendo QR code at the qualifiers I can get 100 Platinum points on my my Nintendo and if I'm among the first 200 people to check in which I hope I am I can get a my Nintendo pin so that's kind of a cool thing to add to my collection yeah very interesting stuff we don't know what the prize will be if I'm assuming you know if you remember the 10 World Championships in 2015 I think the prize was just a belt or a trophy I don't remember exactly we know that for arms they did a belt the arms championship at E3 it was a belt so we'll see what it is they definitely have Yoshi here that riding a cart so that definitely represents Mario Kart I just introducing the art because this could be hints at future games that will be in the finals because the finals will probably be multiple games I can't imagine it's just one I actually would love if they make these Nintendo World Championships like it was back in 1990 where you're playing back to back to back to back to back all these different games without having to wait for change over and you're trying to get like the highest scores as you possibly can within a set time limit for each game and then obviously the person who did the best in all the games had the best cumulative score wins that would be really cool if that's how the finals work I don't know the finals might just be you know individual game-based and then going from there but yeah very very interesting Nintendo's bringing this back very very interesting it's not built around in events like E3 it's its own thing and this is even more interesting because if you watch this week's podcast and if you haven't I'll put a link up here a card or something you should go check it out well the headliner for was a mother for debate we actually talk in that podcast about the potential of a Nintendo World Championships and what they could become for Nintendo if they decide to really really embrace e-sports because you might say oh this is really embracing e-sports unless there's a cash prize it's just something really really cool I mean yeah they're paying for you to go to New York I'm sure they're paying for hotel stays and all of that and that's that's all fine but what what I obviously would like to see is a cash prize or a scholarship or something so some sort of monetary value to make this worth a lot of people's time because even if say for me you know I had to go into the World Championships so it actually would give me some really cool coverage here at Nintendo Prime if I didn't work at Nintendo Prime I would have to take off work to be doing this kind of stuff so yeah very interesting but we talked about in the podcast what the potential of the Nintendo World Championships becoming this big e-sports event of all this awesome live streaming I give everyone in the world gathering one spot and we said they should probably do it at Universal Studios where that where they're building stuff and one of their theme parks that would be amazing offering cash prizes and having this huge open event for the entire world to come compete almost like the Pokemon trading card game championships that they have every once in a while I remember qualifying for those in the past and going on in a cruise ship for for you know getting crazy there and playing card games on the cruise ship Pokemon trying to win the championship I granted I don't think it was a cash prize then either but I was a kid I didn't really expect there to be a cash prize but yeah this is a really cool thing I don't know how many of you are planning to go out and compete but I'm going to be there I'm going to be competing I'm going to be playing Super Mario Odyssey and getting footage for that for you guys that I could put up here hopefully I do something in the demo that you have maybe haven't seen before and plus I believe if I take off-screen footage Nintendo doesn't claim videos so I can use that off-screen footage to talk about Super Mario Odyssey and other things and obviously Metroid Samus Returns we all know at this point my issues with Metroid Samus Returns how I wasn't that excited for it from E3 and how I do not like their use of amiibo in it but I will check it out maybe once I get my hands on it I'll find out you know what I love this game and maybe as much as I like the original Metroid 2 and I can almost overlook maybe some of the things because I'm just having that kind of a time with the game we'll see but this is pretty exciting Nintendo World Championships 2017 it would be really cool if they start making this a yearly event and hopefully improve it every single year I'm hoping that this is not just another one off like it was in 2015 I really think this is something really unique to Nintendo because no other company is doing this right it's just not a thing so again if you're curious for other ideas that we had at Nintendo Prime for the Nintendo World Championships and how they could really blow up the eSports scene go ahead and check out that podcast we have like a 30 minute segment on it so anyways folks I am Nathaniel Ruffeljant from Nintendo Prime if you liked this video you know what to do if you dislike this video hit that dislike button subscribe for more and hey I'll just catch you in the next one